Ukraine reports 72 attacks, with both military and civilian casualties.
Tag: Russian occupation of Crimea
EU Extends Sanctions On Trade With Occupied Crimea For Another Year
Wider sanctions against Russia are expected to be renewed next week.
Occupying Authorities Raid Mosque In Crimea, Loading Over 100 Worshippers Onto Buses
Armed, masked police troops have raided a mosque in Russian-occupied Crimea, loading more than 100 worshippers onto buses.
Azov Activist Krasnov, Accused Of Being FSB Spy, Declares Dry Hunger Strike
Stanislav Krasnov, an Azov activist who was arrested, allegedly tortured, and accused of spying for Russia, has begun a dry hunger strike.
Human Rights Situation in Crimea: A Brief Analysis of the EP Vote
On February 3, 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “on the human rights situation in Crimea, in particular of the Crimean Tatars.” The resolution reminds that “the Russian Federation has illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol and therefore violated international law, including the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the […]
Ukraine Live Day 581: Blockade Of Occupied Crimea Enters Second Day
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. For links to individual […]
Russian Occupiers Use Longstanding Moscow Method to Undercount Crimean Tatars
Staunton, June 4 – Having driven out or denied reentry to many Crimean Tatars, the Russian occupation forces have now employed another longstanding Moscow method of “reducing” the number of Crimean Tatars and thus the role of that nation on the Ukrainian peninsula: manipulating the census. Yesterday, Aleksandr Surinov, head of the Russian Federal State […]
Defend Ukraine from Russian Aggression First; Then, Insist on Reforms
Staunton, November 20 – “September 3, 1939 – British and French commentators and officials said today that it could no longer be denied that Hitler was invading Poland and that the Nazi forces represented the most serious threat to the existence of that country, but they said that Warsaw could not reasonably expect allied assistance […]
No Russian State in Occupation of Crimea Can Be Considered Democratic, Portnikov Says
Staunton, October 17 – Now that Aleksey Navalny has said that he won’t return Crimea to Ukraine and Mikhail Khodorkovsky has added that “only a [Russian] dictator” could do so, other “representatives of Russian democratic society have hastened” to assure Russians that they won’t either as they live in “a democracy” in which “all issues […]
Russian Occupiers in Crimea Shut and then Re-open Gasprinsky Library But Allow Meeting in His Honor
Staunton, September 26 – Four days after the Russian occupation authorities closed down the Gasprinsky Library in Simferopol as part of their effort to rein in the Crimean Tatars, later reopening it presumably under tighter control, the same officials allowed a meeting to take place in Bakchisarai in honor of the centenary of the death […]